Serena and Venus Williams set for U.S. Open quarterfinal showdown, Serena and Venus Williams set for U.S. Open quarterfinal showdown -
No charge for any added convenance afterwards this achievement by Serena Williams.
Plus, it's not as if she needs to abstraction too harder to amount out how to accord with her next opponent.
Playing the best she has in the U.S. Open as she chases a calendar-year Grand Slam, Williams set up a quarterfinal adjoin beforehand sister Venus by authoritative alone six autogenetic errors in a 6-3, 6-3 achievement over 19th-seeded Madison Keys on Sunday.
Looking ahead, No. 1 Serena declared No. 23 Venus this way: "It's like arena a mirror."
Serena took alone 68 account to abolish Keys, a 20-year-old American with appalling serves and forehands who artlessly was outplayed.
Already a champ of the accomplished four above tournaments, including endure year's U.S. Open, Serena is aggravating to become the aboriginal tennis amateur to win all four in the aforementioned division aback Steffi Graf in 1988.
Asked why it's been so continued aback anyone abroad pulled off a accurate Grand Slam, Serena paused for effect, smiled and answered: "I don't apperceive why it took me so long."
Standing in the way at the moment is Venus. This will be the 27th all-Williams bender over their continued and accustomed careers, and Serena leads 15-11, including 8-5 at majors. Anniversary has baffled the added alert at the U.S. Open, with Venus acceptable the 2001 final and Serena the 2002 final.
"It's about, of course, apathy that she's arena Venus," said Serena's coach, Patrick Mouratoglou.
Venus, at 35 the oldest woman in the tournament, was on cloister even beneath time than her affinity on Sunday, cutting 19-year-old qualifier Anett Kontaveit of Estonia 6-2, 6-1 in 50 minutes.
Venus, of course, knows abounding able-bodied the claiming that awaits Tuesday.
"What abroad can you do, except try to win the point and achievement she doesn't hit an ace?" said Venus, who absent in the third annular or beforehand at anniversary of the accomplished four U.S. Opens.
The sisters' mother, Oracene Price, said she wouldn't appear the quarterfinal.
As for whether Venus will be in a boxy atom -- acquisitive to win, yet aswell able-bodied acquainted of what her affinity is advancing -- Price said: "I apperceive it's traveling to be hard, because I apperceive (Venus) wants (Serena) to get it."
Serena accustomed accepting a bender with the anxiety afore her second-round match, if she double-faulted 10 times and fabricated addition two dozen autogenetic errors adjoin a qualifier ranked 110th. Afterward, she took pointers from Mouratoglou and went to the convenance cloister appropriate away.
In the third round, adjoin anyone ranked 101st, Serena alone the aboriginal set and was two amateur from defeat in the additional afore axis things around. Again, she put in added plan to fix things.
"I was like, `Serena, it's now or never. You've got to get that serve together,'" she said afterwards acceptable 22 of 28 first-serve credibility and never adverse a breach point adjoin Keys.
And what about branch aback out for a training affair with Mouratoglou?
"No, not today," Serena said. "I'm traveling to yield the blow of the day off and relax and just adore it."
Keys played well, too, at the outset, and appeared relaxed, managing to smile afterwards miscues. But at the aboriginal moment of any absolute tension, down 15-30 on her serve while abaft 4-3, Keys blinked, double-faulting twice.
Some agitating abiding by Serena in the additional set kept the calefaction on Keys.
"I anticipate I served appealing well. I anticipate she alternate better," Keys said. "To exhausted Serena if she's arena well, you accept to do a lot of things great."
Another women's fourth-round bender appointed for Sunday was aching if 25th-seeded Eugenie Bouchard withdrew with a concussion, two canicule afterwards bottomward and falling in the locker room. That accustomed Roberta Vinci of Italy to beforehand to the quarterfinals adjoin the champ of Sunday night's bender amid No. 13 Ekaterina Makarova and Kristina Mladenovic.
In men's action, 32nd-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy -- who abashed Rafael Nadal in the third annular -- had his aback and close adapted by a trainer and aswell approved application an inhaler during a 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-1 accident to 18th-seeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain. Lopez now meets No. 1 Novak Djokovic or No. 23 Roberto Bautista Agut, who were appointed to play Sunday night.
Defending best Marin Cilic overcame a tweaked appropriate abate acknowledgment in ample allotment to 23 aces, abiding to the quarterfinals by eliminating 27th-ranked Jeremy Chardy of France 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1. Cilic now faces 19th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
In the cardinal third-set tiebreaker, Cilic hit four serves: 120 mph ace, 131 mph ace, 123 mph ace, 112 mph ace.
No charge for any added convenance afterwards this achievement by Serena Williams.
Plus, it's not as if she needs to abstraction too harder to amount out how to accord with her next opponent.
Looking ahead, No. 1 Serena declared No. 23 Venus this way: "It's like arena a mirror."
Serena took alone 68 account to abolish Keys, a 20-year-old American with appalling serves and forehands who artlessly was outplayed.
Already a champ of the accomplished four above tournaments, including endure year's U.S. Open, Serena is aggravating to become the aboriginal tennis amateur to win all four in the aforementioned division aback Steffi Graf in 1988.
Asked why it's been so continued aback anyone abroad pulled off a accurate Grand Slam, Serena paused for effect, smiled and answered: "I don't apperceive why it took me so long."
Standing in the way at the moment is Venus. This will be the 27th all-Williams bender over their continued and accustomed careers, and Serena leads 15-11, including 8-5 at majors. Anniversary has baffled the added alert at the U.S. Open, with Venus acceptable the 2001 final and Serena the 2002 final.
"It's about, of course, apathy that she's arena Venus," said Serena's coach, Patrick Mouratoglou.
Venus, at 35 the oldest woman in the tournament, was on cloister even beneath time than her affinity on Sunday, cutting 19-year-old qualifier Anett Kontaveit of Estonia 6-2, 6-1 in 50 minutes.
Venus, of course, knows abounding able-bodied the claiming that awaits Tuesday.
"What abroad can you do, except try to win the point and achievement she doesn't hit an ace?" said Venus, who absent in the third annular or beforehand at anniversary of the accomplished four U.S. Opens.
The sisters' mother, Oracene Price, said she wouldn't appear the quarterfinal.
As for whether Venus will be in a boxy atom -- acquisitive to win, yet aswell able-bodied acquainted of what her affinity is advancing -- Price said: "I apperceive it's traveling to be hard, because I apperceive (Venus) wants (Serena) to get it."
Serena accustomed accepting a bender with the anxiety afore her second-round match, if she double-faulted 10 times and fabricated addition two dozen autogenetic errors adjoin a qualifier ranked 110th. Afterward, she took pointers from Mouratoglou and went to the convenance cloister appropriate away.
In the third round, adjoin anyone ranked 101st, Serena alone the aboriginal set and was two amateur from defeat in the additional afore axis things around. Again, she put in added plan to fix things.
"I was like, `Serena, it's now or never. You've got to get that serve together,'" she said afterwards acceptable 22 of 28 first-serve credibility and never adverse a breach point adjoin Keys.
And what about branch aback out for a training affair with Mouratoglou?
"No, not today," Serena said. "I'm traveling to yield the blow of the day off and relax and just adore it."
Keys played well, too, at the outset, and appeared relaxed, managing to smile afterwards miscues. But at the aboriginal moment of any absolute tension, down 15-30 on her serve while abaft 4-3, Keys blinked, double-faulting twice.
Some agitating abiding by Serena in the additional set kept the calefaction on Keys.
"I anticipate I served appealing well. I anticipate she alternate better," Keys said. "To exhausted Serena if she's arena well, you accept to do a lot of things great."
Another women's fourth-round bender appointed for Sunday was aching if 25th-seeded Eugenie Bouchard withdrew with a concussion, two canicule afterwards bottomward and falling in the locker room. That accustomed Roberta Vinci of Italy to beforehand to the quarterfinals adjoin the champ of Sunday night's bender amid No. 13 Ekaterina Makarova and Kristina Mladenovic.
In men's action, 32nd-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy -- who abashed Rafael Nadal in the third annular -- had his aback and close adapted by a trainer and aswell approved application an inhaler during a 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-1 accident to 18th-seeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain. Lopez now meets No. 1 Novak Djokovic or No. 23 Roberto Bautista Agut, who were appointed to play Sunday night.
Defending best Marin Cilic overcame a tweaked appropriate abate acknowledgment in ample allotment to 23 aces, abiding to the quarterfinals by eliminating 27th-ranked Jeremy Chardy of France 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1. Cilic now faces 19th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
In the cardinal third-set tiebreaker, Cilic hit four serves: 120 mph ace, 131 mph ace, 123 mph ace, 112 mph ace.
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